44 quotes found
“What's fair ain't necessarily right.”
“When there is injustice someone should speak. When there is unfairness someone should act.We cannot have liberty and justice for all if we only want it only for ourselves. We must serve God in humb...”
“First: each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive liberty compatible with similar liberty for others. Second: social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are b...”
“Be fair, just and kind.”
“Fair has nothing to do with it. This is the law it has nothing to do with justice.”
“Jill had three basic statements about life,1. It is your life, usually with some added social commentary.2. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.3. No one ever s...”
“We as humans tend to overlook lesser beings and things, but we should instead come to love and respect them.”
“The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied...and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his gove...”
“Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.”
“You do not tell people to go fuck themselves and then later when you're in trouble ask them to help you.”
“But the distinction is important and must be made: the highest virtue is not to give or to take. It is to share. And what I didnt understand most of my life is that sharing includes serving oneself...”
“Fairness is not about statistical equality.”
“Public anger over bank bailouts was as much about fairness as the billions of dollars spent.”
“The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.”
“That's not fair!" Charlotte said."I thought you were a grown lady -- you know life is neither fair nor kind.”
“The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.”
“It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong.”
“Fairness is one of the most significant traits in wisdom, the fairer you are, the wiser you become.”
“Do you want to know what General Putnam is thinking? It’s this. He’s thinking that he can’t win the war if he doesn’t keep the people on his side. He’s thinking that he can’t keep the people on his...”
“And suddenly he became almost lyric. "For three thousand years the Common Man has been fended off from the full and glorious life he might have had, by Make Believe. For three thousand years in one...”
